Is not nakedness the indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating extasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is--nor what faith or art or health really is.
Walt Whitman, A Sun-bathed Nakedness

3 Feb 2005 @ 01:03 by Jerry Vest @67.42.113.191 : self preservationThank you for sharing this beautiful connection with mother and her breasts. Being one with the water does give us the opportunity to return to our common roots.

For me, I am reminded that our mother is our first source of nourishment and secures our self-preservation instinct for survival. Thank you for this beautiful image.